Over the River and Through the Wood - An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Children''s Poetry

Rediscover nineteenth-century American children's poetry with period illustrations.
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Over the River and Through the Wood is the first and only collection of its kind, offering readers an unequaled view of the quality and diversity of nineteenth-century American children's poetry. Most American poets wrote for children--from famous names such as Ralph Waldo Emerson to less familiar figures like Christina Moody, an African American author who published her first book at sixteen. In its excellence, relevance, and abundance, much of this work rivals or surpasses poetry written for adults, yet it has languished--inaccessible and unread--in old periodicals, gift books, and primers. This groundbreaking anthology remedies that loss, presenting material that is both critical to the tradition of American poetry and also a delight to read.
Complemented by period illustrations, this definitive collection includes work by poets from all geographical regions, as well as rarely seen poems by immigrant and ethnic writers and by children themselves. Karen L. Kilcup and Angela Sorby have combed the archives to present an extensive selection of rediscoveries along with traditional favorites. By turns playful, contemplative, humorous, and subversive, these poems appeal to modern sensibilities while giving scholars a revised picture of the nineteenth-century literary landscape.

About the author

Karen L. Kilcup is a professor of American literature at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her books include Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Poetry and Fallen Forests: Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women's Environmental Writing, 1781-1924. Angela Sorby is an associate professor at Marquette University in Milwaukee. Her books include Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry, 1865-1917, and three poetry collections, most recently The Sleeve Waves.

Summary

By turns playful, contemplative, humorous, and subversive, these poems appeal to modern sensibilities while giving scholars a revised picture of the nineteenth-century literary landscape.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Kilcup, Karen L. Kilcup, Karen L. (Professor of American Literature Kilcup, Karen L. Sorby Kilcup
• Assisted by: Karen L Kilcup (Editor), Karen L. Kilcup (Editor), Karen L. (Professor of American Literature and Environmental Studies Kilcup (Editor), Kilcup Karen L. (Editor), Angela Sorby (Editor), Angela (Associate Professor Sorby (Editor), Sorby Angela (Editor)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.02.2014
• EAN: 9781421411408
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-1140-8
• No. of pages: 592
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Story books, fairytales, sagas, rhymes, songs; Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, Poetry anthologies (various poets), Children’s and teenage literature studies: general